Word: selma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer of the paper distinguishes among three kinds of marches: marches with policy objectives (the March on Washington), marches to focus public opinion on less defined goals (the Selma March), and "those which primarily demonstrate the commitment and concern of the marchers" (traditional Easter peace-marches). Tomorrow's march is not the first kind, because there is no policy objective in the legislative sense, such as the Civil Rights Bill. It is not the second kind, because it has a longer-range objective than the temporary focusing of public opinion. It is the third kind: The marchers will simply...
...will last. Now, says the Rev. Robert Spike of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race, "we face the question as to how we can put flesh on the content of this commitment." Spike believes that there were "a lot of foolish, wildcat activities" at Selma, and some clerics, notably Roman Catholic and Episcopal bishops in Alabama, wondered whether men of the cloth should have been there...
...Myron Cole of Hollywood, a past president of the Southern California Council of Churches, is troubled that "a good many of our men have come back from Selma saying, 'I was there, why weren...
...talking about Alabama, says the Rev. Harvey Hollis of the Denver Area Council of Churches, "we always arrive back here." The most striking aspect of the Selma spirit is the consensus, expressed by Episcopal Rector Stephen Pressey of Shelby, Ohio, that "ministers are missing the boat if all they do is agitate." Instead of dreaming about bigger and better marches, church leaders appear to have returned with renewed zeal to tackle the major problems of the Negro in the North-education, housing and job opportunity. And, thanks to the astonishingly wide interfaith representation in Alabama-from conservative Lutheran to Orthodox...
...point where it at least perceives the depth of the crisis," says Eugene Callahan of Chicago's Conference on Religion and Race. "A lot of the impetus in the use of money, power and community action will be a direct result of activities like the march in Selma...